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  Spacetime Ripples and the Human Condition Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 16:41 -0600
    Re: Spacetime Ripples and the Human Condition jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-02-18 22:57 +0000

#554406 — Spacetime Ripples and the Human Condition

Spacetime Ripples and the Human Condition
> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/spacetime-ripples-and-the-human-condition/


> Yet there's something that just feels different about gravitational
> waves; the rippling compression and stretching of space and time. It
> is as if we've succeeded in peering into the underworld, or
> under-verse. We've taken a step into the fundamental structure of
> reality, akin to peering through the great microscopes of particle
> accelerators, where fleeting subatomic components and forces reveal
> themselves. Somehow though, the character of this new realm is far
> more visceral. Perhaps it's because the ancient gravitational waves
> that passed through Earth in September 2015, and all those that have
> done so before, are not confined to a narrow tube in an experiment.
> Instead they're washing through us, our planet, and our solar system
> and tweaking the apparent bedrock of space and time in the process.
>
> And now we've let ourselves into that secret room, where there are
> new mysteries to discover about the nature of the cosmos. Therefore
> it is conceivable that this capability marks an even greater turning
> point. A species that can make these measurements - that can even
> conceive of making these measurements - could be very special indeed.
> Have there been, will there be, or are there now, other intelligences
> in the universe that reach this juncture?


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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:

Why did you copy this childish and silly puff piece to the group?


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